Currently have 12 drafts on blogger waiting to be published.>_< (These are posts related to my recent travel-- Haha, let's hope I can keep this up and manage to write about everything.;D)

Since I haven't uploaded my photos (and therefore have not written the captions = an empty blog post still), it will keep piling up.XD

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Listening to 'Jab We Met' [A Hindi film I watched last year.:D] OST while I rotate more of the photos I took.XD

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One week and one day after the trip

Was browsing a catalogue I got in Paris,





haha, does it look similar to the stuff I already own?:P

One week after the trip..

Woke up late today, >_< [I hate waking up late on weekends though because there is so much I'd like to do....o_O]

Things I wanted to do: oil paint(s'been more than a year), sketch (s'been a year.T_T), play the guitar (s'been months.=/), sketch more o_O, read a book, watch the pending j-dramas I bought last year just before my trip, clean my room, play on my ps2 (have not abused it much since I got it yeaaars ago...) sort my photos, view my photos :P, write a blog post, organize the stuff in my room because it is a huge mess.>_< Haha.

But I ended up doing something else.XD

Spent the whole afternoon going over the brochures and flyers I got from Barcelona and Paris.:P





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Got this from a French bookstore, its magazine features japanese manga..






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This is the book I purchased and a magazine happens to feature this very author too..



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J'aime bcp les illustrations de Penelope Bagieu! :D Bought books 1 and 2 of Josephine (will post photos later:P). Ici c'est son nouveau livre, mais je ne l'achete pas...peut-etre quand j'y vais la prochaine fois.XD Heh.



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I love that French bookstores are chuck full of BD's! O_O Also saw Maliki's books, lots of them, were very expensive and didn't buy.:P Was looking for a certain BD artist's work, but seems this artist is not that popular, went to two bookstores and didn't find it.:P But most of the other BD artists I know of were there.:O



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A poster I've been seeing a lot in Paris, will watch this when it becomes available for download.:P



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Laduree thingies from my purchase.:P



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Bought a Tolkien book - LOTR: Return of the King in french.:P (I have it in English too so would be very convenient if I were to use it to study.:P)



Was a used book and unlike the others, this was in bad shape.>_< But considering I will only be using it to study, plus I wouldn't find it here anyway, I bought it.>_<




Should be easy to mend, since I've mended quite a few books already.:D

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I got this one with a magazine in Barcelona, (the magazine is with my sis right now...n_n;)



It has pretty neat pages inside, :P Used to keep planners like this, thinking it would be such a waste to use it.>_< But I think I will use it to write a bit about my day, for all of the days that are in this planner.:P [whether I will be able to keep this up for 365 days, I don't know. :P.. have decided I should write my entries here in Spanish.]

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A look at the other books I bought in Paris (some of the mangas do not have a cover page, :O but they were VERY CHEAP.>_<)



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Shopping Spree!

Since I came back from my trip, everything feels so cheap here! :O

Well, have bought a bunch of stuff yesterday. ^_^

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First, this one, was a great find.:D



and some more:



It comes in pink and blue, but since I already have a lot of pink in my closet, picked the blue one for a change.:D

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Also purchased some keyrings and strappu~:

Just the other day, was browsing Betty Autier's blog, among them, were doughnut-shaped Hello Kitty straps from her trip to Japan.:D
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[*photo credit: Betty Autier]

What I found instead were mickeyXminnie straps, with a similar idea.:P


I love keys like these! But this is a disney-inspired one.;P the thought that came to mind almost instantly was Kingdom Hearts.:P


A choco-bear, with a cute face.;P ＊プッ二・プッ二＊


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A closer look at the lil brown bear:


Also got myself a mini lion plushie.:D


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And more photos...

Lion X Bear


Very cute tail.:P


(This photo taken with my mobile.:P)


Lion plushie with a cupcake keyring.:3


Choco bear with one of the photos I took from my trip.:P


How the minnie-doughnut-strappu would look on my phone...


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Well, that's pretty much it for now.:D Shall go sort my photos again.o_O

A look at the memory cards I used... [First three were from my Nikon D90, the other half were from my Canon SX110is, plus I have some more from my Samsung s8300 (mobile), and some from my PSP-camera (used this to upload to twitpic).]



à plouche~~! ;)

Barcelona - entry 004

We stopped by here for some Tapas, [was quite full from eating 4.5 meals on our 20-hour flight! .5=snacks.>_<; and from sleeping a lot too!]



The interior looks something like this downstairs:





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Some food you can nibble on..





I thought I took a photo of everything but it turns out I didn't take a photo of the ones on the other side....

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Couldn't get a good shot of this with auto,



and it looks bad with flash.



This sangria was high on alcohol and less on fruity content.=_=

We ended up not finishing our drinks.>_< Was feeling woozy halfway through. [but definitely helped me get some good sleep on my first day despite the time difference! xP]

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My first self-timed photo on my Nikon... Haha. It is so easy to set up the self timer on the D90.>_<



Thank you Rob and Mandy! XD

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The rest of the place looks like this:



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This part looks really cool.



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The bartender gives us something more to drink before we leave...



Haha, it looked pretty strong so only took a sip.>_<

Was orangey-gingery, and sweet. Not bad... [But any more and I'm at my limits.n_n;]

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It turns out Rob and Mandy lives right across our hotel, literally. -_-

[Have always been curious how these apartment buildings look like on the inside! Is interesting to go inside one.XD Different from what we normally have here.]



So before heading back, we went to see Rio (their cat),


[Holaaa Rio!]

...who was soooo adorable and seemed very happy to see us! :D

[It liked gnawing at my sister's boots too. Haha.]

I do not know much about cats, nor have I had much experience about / encounters with them, but this is one friendly and playful cat.>_<

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We also had some tea and got to taste some freshly-baked blueberry goodness by Mandy!:D

[Nothing beats strong warm tea and sweets!]


Scrumptious!:P

Thanks to Rob who took this photo of us! (...and hope you enjoyed your holidays in Strassbourg!)